A comment on a Times piece suggested that older people are likely to have a “Ce la Vie” attitude towards the possibility of Covid infection. I think “C’est la Mort” may be closer.
(Edited “le” to “la”. Surprised that “Mort” is feminine, given the word ending. A bit like Le Musee, unexpectedly masculine.)
So “Love and Death” would be “L’Amor et La Mort”.
Why did the lion cross the Serengeti?
To get to the other pride.
Q. Why was the Cassowary thrown out of Birdland?
A. Because it was Ostrich-sized.
Here is a way to sort a series of numbers. Proably not suitable for practical use but rather elegant.
Imagine for example we want to sort 3, 4, 2, 1 into ascending order. We set out some beads like so
3 o o o
4 o o o o
2 o o
1 o
Then we let the beads in each column drop vertically, and: hey presto
1 o
2 o o
3 o o o
4 o o o oIt's not obvious at all that (or how) this works but people have proved it always does. Thinking about it does give an intuitive feel but it's good to have some more solid evidence.
They say tomorrow is another day. But so was yesterday, to be fair.
Q. Where do wheels sit down?
A. In wheelchairs.
What positive number is the square root of half itself?
I take my supplements with gin.
And always wonder who will win.
Where does the word “etymology” come from.
There was a man in London Town
Who laughingly did say
I wear my scaugh around my throat
To keep the chills away.
When I heard people in the US talking about the right to bare arms, I thought, what’s the big deal about shirts with short sleeves? Turns out they mean guns.
The sun was gold
But then it fell
And I felt old.
Here's a nice photo my brother Simon took of a yellowhammer.
I loooked up where the bird got its name and there are different theories. All agree about the yellow bit. But what is a "hammer"
I found two suggestions and there may be more possibilities.
Old English amore, a kind of bird (probably the yellowhammer, so that would make it a yellow yellowhammer, or maybe just a bird of the bunting group)
Old English hama = feathers
The first seems to be a common Germanic word denoting a bunting or some similar bird. It's been suggested there is a connect with emmer, a kind of wheat, and indeed grains are part of a yellowhammer's diet. But the OED has a long discussion and I don't think we shall ever know the word origin; it's probably a conflation of more than one source word.
I’ve discovered a new mineral. It’s pretty much like Quartz but about half the size. I’ve tentative named it “Pintz”.
Why didn’t the duck cross the road?
Because it chickened out.
Crossroads. Are they a mild form of road rage?
I know this guy called Will Power. Boy can he get his act together.
I read King Richard the Third was buried in a car park in Leicester. I was like, wow, I didn’t even know they had car parks back then.
Whenever I travel from one land mass to another I experience a really strong need to urinate. My doctor says I'm incontinent.
“Unfortunately Millicent finds herself in a sticky situation”, said Tom gloomily.
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